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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Research: Plants Cure Cancer, Not Chemicals

Unbeknownst to most, a Copernican revolution has already
taken place in cancer theory. Today, the weight of evidence indicates
that plants and not chemicals are the solution for reversing the global
cancer epidemic.

Our understanding of what causes
cancer has undergone something akin to a Copernican revolution in the
past decade. Biological fatalism has been the predominant force in
medicine over the past half century, where most conditions including
cancer were believed predestined 'in the genes,' and therefore
impossible to reverse. Instead of looking for root cause resolution of
disease (RCRD), we resigned ourselves to 'finding it early' and in the case of cancer, when doing so (even when it was benign),
we waged war against it, quite literally using weapons grade materials
(mustard gas- and nuclear materials-derived agents). Now, however, in
this post-Genomic era,
factors above (epi-) the control of the genes – epigenetic factors –
are taking center stage; these include environmental exposures, stress,
nutritional factors, and various lifestyle-based variables that are
within the ambit of our control and volition, and which are often reversible.

In other words, cancer is now being understood as epigenetic dysfunction,
a direct and even adaptive response to the post-industrial,
carcinogen-saturated environment, in addition to a diet of faux, mostly
chemically-produced 'food,' combining to produce an environment – 'inner
terrain-- within the body ideal for cancer promotion.

Indeed, in a new study published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology
titled, "The use of plant-derived bioactive compounds to target cancer
stem cells and modulate tumor microenvironment," the authors note the
powerful implications of this new epigenetic view of cancer:

"A
fundamental aspect to be taken into account is that epigenetic changes
can possibly be reversed by modifying epigenetic factors, such as diet
and lifestyle. Nowadays, identification of these factors is crucial to
develop epigenetically-based preventions and more effective anti-cancer
intervention strategies."

Moreover, they note that
natural interventions are once again (after countless millennia of
worldwide use), at the cutting edge of medical intervention:

"Virtually,
all dietary compounds have the ability to act at the epigenetic level
in cancer cells thus influencing the epigenome in a positive or negative
way. Particularly, plant derived compounds, such as polyphenols, have
the capacity to reverse adverse epigenetic mutations in cancer cells, to
inhibit tumorigenesis progression, to prevent the metastatic process or
to sensitize cancer cells to chemo and radiotherapy (Vanden Berghe,
2012)."

The new study highlighted the following points, the implications for the future of cancer treatment are truly revolutionary:

Phytocompounds might be exploited for cancer prevention and treatment.

As we have covered extensively in previous posts,
the discovery of a subpopulation within tumors of cells known as cancer
stem cells, reveals that our half-century old war on cancer, officially
inaugurated in 1971 with Nixon's signing of the National Cancer Act,
was extremely misguided. The notion that cancer is simply a byproduct of
cells within the body going rogue due to DNA damage and replicating
clonally through fundamentally chaotic – stochastic – processes, has
been called into question by the discovery that tumors are actually
sophisticated, hierarchically organized communities that express highly
intelligent, survival-based behaviors, albeit evolutionary ancient in origin. The
establishment views cancer as something 'you have or don't have,' and
the equivalent of being infected by 'terrorist-like' cancer cells that
must be treated as an enemy and obliterated by any means necessary. This
treatment ensues regardless of the collateral damage to the patient.
The emerging and far more nuanced cancer stem-cell based perspective,
precipitated primarily by epigenetic factors – e.g. chemical exposure,
dietary incompatibilities, metabolic acidosis and low oxygen (hypoxia) –
offers a far more promising and empowering view of prevention and
treatment.

If cancer is not something that fatalistically 'happens to the body,'
due to 'bad' inherited genes passed down from distant ancestors, but is
something the body does adaptively to survive anthropogenic
exposures that diverge from millions, if not billions of years, of
bodily prehistory, suddenly the solution to overcoming the burgeoning,
global cancer epidemic is in regaining and/or reproducing the ideal
bodily and psychospiritual conditions within the body that is no longer
conducive to carcinogenesis. As proposed in the book I co-authored, Cancer Killers, we don't get sick because we have cancer; we get cancer because we are already sick.

For
additional research on the true nature of, and solution for, cancer,
focusing on the revolutionary implications of the cancer stem cell
theory, please review the following articles and videos:

I
anticipate a time in the not too distant future when the conventional
medical establishment freely acknowledges that cancer is a natural
response to decades of culminative exposures to unnatural,
evolutionarily unprecedented chemical, electromagnetic, psychospiritual
exposures and conditions. Instead of vilifying and violently suppressing
the symptom of this perfect storm of toxicity -- cancer -- enlightened
practitioners will learn to address, remove and redress the root causes,
focusing on reproducing the conditions that support our genetic and
epigenetic blueprint of health and wellness. It is the goal of GreenMedInfo.com
to provide the public and professional populations a resource to
leverage the emerging evidence to do exactly that. The following
database sections are designed to make this task easier:

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